The earwig's tail : a modern bestiary of multi-legged legends /

Throughout the Middle Ages, enormously popular bestiaries presented people with descriptions of rare and unusual animals, typically paired with a moral or religious lesson. In The Earwig's Tail, entomologist May Berenbaum and illustrator Jay Hosler draw on the powerful cultural symbols of these...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Berenbaum, M. (May) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
Temas:
Insects > Popular works.
Arthropoda > Popular works.
Errors, Scientific.
Common fallacies.
Insectes > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Arthropodes > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Erreurs scientifiques.
Erreurs populaires.
NATURE > Animals > Insects & Spiders.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Entomology.
Arthropoda
Common fallacies
Errors, Scientific
Insects
Electronic books.
Popular works
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The beasts
  • The aerodynamically unsound bumble bee
  • The brain-boring earwig
  • The California tongue cockroach
  • The domesticated crab louse
  • The extinction-prevention bee
  • The filter-lens fly
  • The genetically modified frankenbug
  • The headless cockroach
  • The Iraqi camel spider
  • The jumping face bug
  • The kissing bug
  • The "locust"
  • The mate-eating mantis
  • The nuclear cockroach
  • The Olympian flea
  • The prognosticating woollyworm
  • The queen bee
  • The right-handed ant
  • The sex-enhancing Spanishfly
  • The toilet spider
  • The unslakable mosquito
  • The venomous daddylonglegs
  • The wing-flapping chaos butterfly
  • The X-ray-induced giant insect
  • The yogurt beetle
  • The zapper bug.

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